With utmost respect and compassion for how Parisians were feeling following the brutal Friday 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, Climate Guardians defied the State of Emergency declaration that strictly limited civil society movements, including public protesting, during COP21, December 2015

One of the Angels arrested was a 75 year old mother of five, grandmother of eight and a great-grandmother of three children as well as the first person in Australia to have been arrested for taking direct action against gas fracking, and a recipient of a United Nations Association of Australia community award for her commitment to world peace and the environment. June is pictured here defying the State of Emergency ban on protesting in Paris during COP21, December 2015.

Supporting Avaaz’s innovative shoe exhibition, Paris’s contribution to the global ‘March for Climate’ mobilisation on 29th November 2015 during France’s ban on public marches

In a few prominent public places—including the Palais Royale, the Archives Nationales in Paris and the Paris Opera—highly talented and dedicated young musicians (also dressed as Angels) played music in between our readings of Australian children’s letters

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After nearly four hours blockading Engie’s global headquarters in bitter cold, kneeling before a Parisian riot squad detailing the findings of a major report on Engie’s failings of Victoria’s Latrobe Valley community

Women dressed as angels holds signs at the Place de la Repubique where hundreds of pairs of shoes were places earlier, on November 19, 2015, in Paris, on the eve of the official opening of the COP21 UN Conference on climate in the French capital. The shoes were placed as part a symbolic and peaceful rally called by the NGO Avaaz or Voice “Paris sets off for climate”. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP / MIGUEL MEDINA (Photo credit should read MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images)

Supporting a spectacular Big Oil Out of Culture action at The Louvre urging cultural institutions to reject funding derived from fossil fuels

In protest of the deep injustice and lack of ambition inherent in the Paris Agreement, Climate Guardians led a crowd of more than 10,000 through the Paris streets on the last day of COP21, December 2015